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Informal housing in Addis Ababa. Ethiopia's cities are struggling to meet demand for affordable housing and settlements are growing (Photo: Olli Pitkänen, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The Ethiopian informal settlement jigsaw puzzle: an opportunity to re-sort the pieces?
Insight, 25 October 2018
Polluted river
Time to join the dots on environmental murders
… between courage and cowardice we all stand or fall. Mike Shanahan is IIED's press officer. This post was first published on Under The Banyan . …
Insight, 28 February 2013
Congolese refugees proudly display the cup they won in a football tournament for youths from refugee communities in Kampala (Photo: Stephen Luke, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Beyond self-reliance: recognising the relationships that matter for urban refugees
… where they are expected to be immediately self-reliant.  Recent IIED research in Uganda, as described in this paper in Environment & …
Insight, 07 November 2017
Exploring fair trade timber
… sustainable and fair community forest products in the market. What IIED did Assessed the potential national demand for forest products …
Project, 11 June 2008
Biofuels boom risks increasing landlessness among world's poor
… biofuels are not all good or bad," says lead author Lorenzo Cotula of IIED. "Biofuels can either help or harm the world's poor depending on …
News, 02 June 2008
Cover for G01603.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 14 Development of PRA in Francophone Africa: lessons from the Sahel
… was held in Saly Portudal, Senegal, to discuss issues relating to IIED's PRA-Sahel Programme has established the rapid development of PRA …
Publication, 01 January 1995
Cover for 17700FIIED.pdf
Maximisation des avantages écosystémiques grâce aux EIE dans les zones situées au-delà de la juridiction nationale
Publication, 01 April 2019
Cover for G02965.pdf
Editorial (PLA 53)
… use of natural resources.~Guest editor Sonja Vermeulen coordinated IIED’s Power Tools initiative – Sharpening Policy Tools for Marginalised …
Publication, 01 December 2005
Cover for G02966.pdf
Overview - Power tools for participatory learning and action (PLA 53)
… use of natural resources.~Guest editor Sonja Vermeulen coordinated IIED’s Power Tools initiative – Sharpening Policy Tools for Marginalised …
Publication, 01 December 2005
A heap of steel balls in a lorry
Why procurement should be the "next frontier" in transparency for mining
… was the basis of my recent discussion on mining local procurement at IIED . As shown in the World Gold Council diagram, in 2013 71% of all …
Insight, 01 July 2019